Reality Check

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Just a few realities with regard to some of what the various candidates are talking about

1) Fuel prices aren't coming down, not ever: The only way to get lower oil prices would be to continue in Iraq and launch wars in other foreign countries in order to take their oil at less than market rates. Alternative fuels are possible, but they will be expensive and will require (in most cases) switching to different cars/fueling stations etc., and the resulting fuel would be more expensive than gas is now: This includes biodeisel and if you were going to make enough biodeisel to replace all of the fuel used in the US - every single square inch of the US (including the land where your house is) would have to be covered in crops. Any way you slice it, fuel will be going up more.

2) If NAFTA is ended, or renegotiated - at least from Canada's POV, prices will go up even more. Remember that most of what the US imports isn't finished goods, it's resources so ending NAFTA or renegoiating it in the current climate will mean higher prices on fuel, imported water, minerals, metals, wood and paper products, and agricultural (food) products - it may even mean not getting them at all as India and China are already bidding on every resource Canada has in surplus.